DUNEDIN MUSEUM

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 29

DUNEDIN MUSEUM

AGRICULTURAL SECTION

ASSISTANCE FROM ABROAD

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day,

The need of agricultural museums was stressed by Mr. H. D. Skinner, Curator of the Dunedin Museum, in an address to the Otago branch of the New Zealand Royal Society, Mr. Skinner, who recently returned from a trip abroad, said that although the agricultural industry was the most important in the world, there were veryfew agricultural museums in the overseas countries, and apart from one 'at Exeter and the National Museum at Edinburgh he had seen practically no farming exhibits in Great Britain. It was high time an agricultural section was opened at Dunedin.

The Dunedin Museum, he said, had been extremely fortunate in securing a number of excellent models of standard types of stock which iwere a duplicate set to that sent to the centennial exhibition at Toronto by the British Government. To obtain these he had enlisted the help of Lord Bledisloe. The Carnegie Corporation had later voted £.500 to the museum to assist in the introduction of an agricultural section, and it had been decided to provide an appropriate background for the various groups of models. It was hoped that the dis^ play would attract farmers to the museum and help also to increase interest in the agricultural sect-ion's activities. It was hoped that by November next year the various groups of models would be set up with appropriate backgrounds; the Dunedin Museum Would then possess an agricultural section of considerable merit.